Pam Cox
Pamela Margaret Cox is a British Labour Party politician and academic who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester since 2024. BiographyPamela Cox was brought up in Southend. Her mother was a midwife before becoming a nurse. Her father left school at the age of 15 and was apprenticed as a joiner before joining the church and becoming a minister. She has two sisters, both of whom became nurses in south Essex.[1] Cox studied history at Robinson College, Cambridge,[2] and in 1997 was awarded a PhD for a thesis on the history of girls' delinquency in Britain.[3] Prior to her election as an MP, she was a professor of social history and criminology at the University of Essex, and has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 2017. She presented the BBC documentary series, Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter and Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs, and has contributed to historical and cultural programmes for Channel 4 and Channel 5 including Edwardian Britain in Colour.[3] PoliticsIn 1994, Cox joined the Labour Party.[4] She has been a New Town and Christ Church councillor since May 2021, and on 5 November 2022 she became the Labour Party prospective parliamentary candidate in the 2024 general election for Colchester.[5][6][7] Upon her election to parliament, she became the first female MP to represent the constituency.[8] In 2024, Cox first voted to remove the winter fuel payment from older people before she voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide.[9] Works
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